Jones Day has defended clients in all forms of government investigations and public and private enforcement actions, including merger challenges, cartel prosecutions, and follow-on civil class actions.

Civil investigations and litigation have represented the majority of our worldwide antitrust practice's work in recent years.  With the support of one of the best trial practices of any global law firm, Jones Day's antitrust litigators know how and expect to try lawsuits.  We have handled a broad range of matters, including before the U.S. federal and state courts, the courts of the European Union and its Member States, and other tribunals around the globe.  We have significant dispute resolution capability in North America, Europe and Asia. Accordingly, we are able to structure litigation teams that are tailored to the scope of the problem, utilizing the full range of skills available at Jones Day.

Jones Day has developed a reputation for excellence in matters involving complex antitrust litigation.  Our experience includes defending U.S. antitrust class action lawsuits filed in federal courts and in the state courts to which plaintiffs’ counsel increasingly are turning to take advantage of state indirect purchaser laws. We coordinated sanofi-aventis’ defense of worldwide civil litigation, including more than 150 civil cases filed in U.S. federal and state courts, relating to price-fixing allegations in the vitamins industry. We defended R.J. Reynolds in connection with numerous class actions alleging a conspiracy to fix cigarette prices; Macy’s against class actions alleging conspiracies to fix the prices of cosmetics, women’s shoes, and tableware products; and Bayer AG against multiple federal and state class action lawsuits alleging antitrust violations involving rubber chemicals and synthetic rubber products.

We also have represented clients in proceedings before the European Commission, national competition authorities, and administrative and civil courts. We defended Apple against antitrust challenges related to iPods and iTunes in the U.S. and before the European Commission and enforcers in the UK, France, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. We represented MasterCard in connection with its interchange fee in proceedings before the European Commission, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, and European and twelve European national courts; and represented KPN International in several claims in the contexts of abusive pricing and unfair licensing condition cases in Belgium and Germany